Kokroch Janata Party demonstration in Pune: Founder Abhijeet says Maratha Empire map should be re-added to NCERT, Wangchuk releases education manifesto

The Kokroch Janata Party (CJP) staged a demonstration at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) campus in Pune on Thursday. Social activist Sonam Wangchuk was also present at the event. Hundreds of students and supporters arrived with posters and banners and demanded the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Sonam Wangchuk released the CJP's education manifesto. He said that it emphasizes on preventing paper leakage, timely declaration of results, increasing transparency in recruitment and entrance examinations, fixing accountability of exam agencies and addressing the problems of students due to delays in exams. Deepak, the founder of the CJP, in his speech claimed that more people have gathered in Pune than at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Deepak also placed 5 demands before the government. He also demanded that the map of the Maratha Empire be included in the NCERT books again. Indeed, NCERT had published a map of the Maratha Empire in the Class 8 book for the 2025-26 session. It depicted parts of Rajasthan as Maratha territory. Some historians and former royal families objected to this, following which the NCERT removed the map in March 2026. 3 Pictures of CJP's Exhibition... A young man came with a poster written in Marathi. It means in Hindi - Narendra in the country, Devendra in the state and Dharmendra in the paper leak. After Pune, the CJP's demonstration in Lucknow Deepak has announced a nationwide demonstration from June 11. It has started from Pune. The CJP said on X that the next protest will be held in Lucknow on June 12. Deepak will be visiting many cities including Jaipur, Amritsar and Bengaluru. After that, it will reach Jantar Mantar in Delhi on June 20. On June 6, the party held its first demonstration at Jantar Mantar. Thousands of people gathered in the demonstration that lasted for 5 hours. Deepak said, "My photo with the PM is AI generated. Deepak held a press conference before the exhibition in Pune. During this time, he called his viral picture with Prime Minister Modi as AI generated. "How can I meet the Prime Minister? I was just a student in America. Everyone knows how rigorous the process of meeting the Prime Minister is," said Deepak, who was quoted by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut as saying that Deepak had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the US before coming to India. Raut claimed that he had been sent a photograph of the two. However, he did not share the photo. CJP formed after CJI's remarks, called youth cockroaches The Kokroch Janata Party (CJP) was started after a remark by Chief Justice Surya Kant. During the hearing of a case on May 15, he said that some unemployed youths are like cockroaches, who later attack the system by becoming media, social media or RTI activists. The day after this remark, on May 16, Abhijeet Deepak, who lives in the US, started the CJP and created the party's accounts on social media. On May 22, he launched an online petition demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, which claimed to have the support of over 8 lakh people. In just 26 days of becoming CJP, his followers on Instagram have reached 2.27 crore. This number is more than the 94 lakh followers of the BJP and 1.37 crore followers of the Congress. CJP has 2.75 lakh followers on X.